| Platform | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Jia Zhangke |
| Written by | Jia Zhangke |
| Starring | Wang Hongwei Zhao Tao Liang Jingdong |
| Music by | Yoshihiro Hanno |
| Cinematography | Yu Lik-wai |
| Editing by | Kong Jinglei |
| Release date(s) | September 4, 2000 (Venice) |
| Running time | 193 minutes |
| Country | China |
| Language | Mandarin |
Platform (Chinese: 站台; pinyin: Zhàntái) is a 2000 Chinese film written and directed by Jia Zhangke. The film is named after a popular song about waiting at a railway platform.
It is set in and around the small city of Fenyang, Shanxi province, China, from the end of 1970s to the beginning of 1990s. Fenyang was also the birthplace of director Jia Zhangke. The film is called "an epic of grassroots".
It follows a group of twenty-something performers as they face personal and societal changes.
Dialogue is a mixture of local speech, mainly Jin Chinese and Mandarin.
The film was voted the second best film of the past decade by the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)'s Cinematheque, by more than 60 film experts (historians, archivists, etc.) from around the world.[1][2] Jia Zhangke's another film Still life was voted the third best film.[2] The film placed 32 on Slant Magazine's list of the 100 best films of the 2000s.[3] Platform was named as one of Sight & Sound’s films of the 2000s.[4]
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